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Howler Head is it a Bourbon or It Is A Banana Lolly in a Glass? · Aussie Bourbon Lovers

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  Incredible flavours, even better stories.
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  One Pour, 10 Minuts.
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  Aussie bourbon lovers, sharing bourbon with Australia.
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  I got a pop. Well done.
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  There you go. What are we drinking tonight, Dave?
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  This is so fun, and I'm-Sorry, just brought my heart pouring the drink.
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  What are we drinking today? I'm proud to admit that this is your idea.
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  This is a Howler Head, the official Flaved Bourbon of the UFC.
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  Do you know what UFC stands for?
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  Ufc? See if you can get it right.
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  One of the words is fighting. American.
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  American doesn't start with U, F, or C.
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  So I love that you have gone for a- United Fighting.
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  I don't know.
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  I think it stands for ultimate fighting championship, but I'm not sure.
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  I think there was an episode of Friends where one of the characters
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  was going to be in the UFC. Cheers.
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  Cheers.
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  Why are we talking about UFC?
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  When we're drinking hell ahead?
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  Can you hold it up to the camera for the good folks on the YouTube channel?
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  For those who are listening, it's got a very hilarious monkey screaming whilst
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  wearing glasses, sunglasses in a very bright red and yellow.
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  It's wacky in exactly the right amount of wacky.
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  It would stand out on a shelf. Exactly.
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  Come on then. Nose it and tell me what you're getting.
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  It's just tropical jungle full of banana lollies.
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  I'm not getting anything except for banana lollies.
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  It literally takes you back to your childhood.
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  It's just like you're nosing a packet of banana lollies.
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  There's no other- If you're not from a territory that has banana lollies in
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  your childhood, we're sorry about that.
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  But in Australia, you can definitely get these.
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  How would you describe what a banana lolly is?
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  It's like a- It's like a yellow…
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  It's marshmallow-y, but hard lolly.
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  It's like a hard marshmallow.
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  Yeah, like a marshmallow that's been left in the sun or something.
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  It's hard and crunchy, but it's…
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  I don't know how you describe it.
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  Extremely marshmallow-y in the shape of a banana.
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  Yeah, and it's little and yellow.
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  It's the banana flavour.
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  In a mixed bag of lollies.
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  It's the one that you would hope you would get.
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  It doesn't smell like actual bananas.
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  Not real bananas, but it smells like banana lollies.
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  But this smells like banana lollies.
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  But banana lollies don't really smell like bananas.
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  Are you getting any bourbon notes at all?
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  No, it is literally, I just open a packet of banana lollies in my face
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  I'm going to, for the purpose of the intellectual exercise, I'm
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  trying to get something else.
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  Can I try?
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  Swirl a little and try and get something else.
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  I am getting a little bit of vanilla.
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  Are you getting anything?
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  That might be-I could stretch and say-I mean, it's confectionary.
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  You're also getting those strawberry creams.
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  But if you did a blind tasting with people who had no idea what the heck was in any
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  of the glasses, and one of them was a sultana-You could have one with banana
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  lollies in it and put this in the one next to it, and they'd both smell the same.
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  I wonder if they would smell exactly the same.
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  Well, this one's...
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  You're getting to methodologies, like some alcohol flavour, like some heat.
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  But the reason I love this one is it's really all about the fun.
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  It literally smells like banana lollies.
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  It's pretty unashamed, isn't it?
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  The whole howl ahead thing.
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  Well, they're not trying to be sophisticated.
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  They're just like, Let's have fun.
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  Let's have fun and make bourbon that smells But does it taste like, Dave?
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  Tell us what it tastes like. All right.
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  Go on.
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  When you pop it in your mouth, what happens?
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  It smells like banana lollies, but does it taste like banana lollies
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  as much as it smells?
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  Because sometimes it's different.
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  It's rough as guts, in my view.
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  As you can see it, it's not like… I think…
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  It does taste like banana lollies.
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  If I'm being really fair, if someone said to me, Would you like a Sam Buker shot?
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  A tequila shot?
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  I don't know, a slippery nipple, or all the different shots you can have.
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  Or would you like a Halleah head?
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  I'd go Halleah head.
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  I think I would like this.
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  I think not enough people know that this is an option that you can have.
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  I imagine it's a lot of fun in different cocktails because of the
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  banana lolly flavour.
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  You put it in some tropical.
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  Maybe I should try it with a tropical slushy.
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  It's like we had a local brewery who did a beer that was-The killa Python.
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  The killa Python jelly lolly flavour.
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  The smell of that was amazing because it smelt like killa Python jelly lollies.
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  But it didn't taste anything like killa Python jelly lollies, whereas this smells
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  like banana lollies and tastes like banana lollies.
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  But you're drinking bourbon.
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  Do you reckon people who don't like bourbon would like this
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  more than If they had a particular penchant for banal lollies, maybe.
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  Yeah. I mean, some people hate banal lollies.
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  Can I do- It's like a childhood memory in a…
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  What? Class.
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  Yeah, it is a bit like a childhood memory in a class.
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  Can I do that thing that people probably hate me doing, but I like doing anyway.
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  You're going to do it anyway, Dave.
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  Can I quiz you a bit on what makes this or doesn't make this a bourbon?
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  Oh, you try it.
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  I'm just going to ask you some questions.
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  I don't know enough about exactly how they make it.
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  All right.
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  What we do know is we know that it's 40%, so 80 proof.
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  We know that there's a bourbon.
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  It's on the bottle that says aged Kentucky spirit with banana flavour.
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  Yeah. So why do they call it?
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  Where Where does it get its classification?
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  The name actually also says Monkey spirit.
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  It's not even claiming it's a bourbon. No.
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  It's not even claiming it's a whiskey.
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  It's just saying, Aged Kentucky spirit with banana flavour.
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  I think they do call it a bourbon on that website, don't they?
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  Is it just a spirit, Dave?
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  A handcrafted award-winning, Addie proof Kentucky straight bourbon.
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  Kentucky straight bourbon. There you go.
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  Well, it obviously has the recipe of corn and all the things you need to
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  put into a delicious bourbon. Let's be careful here.
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  It's not a bourbon. It breaks one of the rules.
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  What rule does it break?
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  It's got an extra flavour in it.
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  You can't add extra stuff into a bourbon.
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  You get a gold star.
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  Oh, thanks, Dave. Well done.
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  Can I have a banana lolly?
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  No, but you can have a little sip of this, and you're basically having the
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  same thing, but with alcohol. Cheers.
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  Well done.
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  That's good.
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  All right, good one.
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  Okay, let's go- Here's a question for you. Okay, go ahead.
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  It's got absolutely nothing to do with tonight's drink other than it's making me
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  think about fun, young, and when you first go out drinking.
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  Is it you? The answer is Helen.
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  No.
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  When do you reckon you first drank bourbon, like actual bourbon?
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  Like, actual bourbon, not whiskey or Can it be in an RTD?
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  Can it be in a premixed can?
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  Yeah, I'll take that.
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  But like an actual, legit meets all the bourbon rules, bourbon.
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  I reckon it must be before I was 18.
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  It must be, I reckon I would have had a Jim Beam white label or a
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  Jack Daniels or a…
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  Maybe even a Maker's Mark. Probably not a Maker's Mark.
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  I still claim Maker's Mark, I reckon it must be one of my first ever bourbons.
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  I reckon it would have been after I met you.
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  I drank a lot of Woodstock, but I don't know what Woodstock even is anymore.
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  I drank the Johnny Walker, and that's not a bourbon.
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  Yeah, it's a Scotch.
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  But this is a fun question, actually.
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  I want to talk to someone who knows a bit more about the history
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  of bourbon in Australia.
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  The history of bourbon in Australia?
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  Because RTDs, it's fascinating to me.
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  The more I learn about RTDs in Australia, Australia really invented, not didn't
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  invent, but really pioneered what RTDs are.
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  And I've personally had an experience that I'm not allowed to talk about, about what
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  RTDs are in Australia and how unique they are.
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  Well, that's not exciting to share. I'm sorry.
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  I've commercially, there's a thing that's happened.
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  There's a thing that said you can't say it.
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  Yeah, exactly. Stop talking about it.
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  Sorry.
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  But there's a thing that makes me aware that in Australia, RTDs are very
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  special, interesting, and unique.
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  This planet is what the RTD is.
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  Ready to drink is what RTD stands for.
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  And basically it means it's a spirit and a mixer in a can that's
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  already ready to drink.
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  And I put it in and it's already when you crack it, it goes like a beer does.
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  But it's carbonated, well, usually carbonated, at least.
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  And it's got alcohol in it and it's got a mixer in it.
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  And it's a drink that's ready to drink straight away.
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  It's like a cocktail in a can.
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  But it could just be like a vodka tonic or a gin tonic or it could be a
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  bourbon and Coke, whatever.
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  But it's ready to drink in a can.
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  Rtd, that's what that is.
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  And Australia pioneered it.
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  And it's actually, I think, probably the main reason why Australia has such a high
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  ranking in the why, where, one of the biggest.
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  Well, maybe But one of the biggest drinkers of bourbon in the world
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  is because we drink so much.
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  Because we put it in with mixers and had them in ready to go cans.
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  I see. Ready to go.
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  You've changed to RTG.
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  Ready to go. Rtg.
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  Anyway, it doesn't matter. Who cares?
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  But I want to talk to one of the people who knows a lot about this in terms
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  of the history of what that is.
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  Well, maybe you could find someone and get them on.
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  I'm going to do it.
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  Ask them to come on our podcast and we'll quiz them.
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  Yeah, for sure. I'll do it, don't me.
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  We're going to RTD.
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  Ready to go.
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  Wait, can I do at least one more It's a bit of a question before
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  we have to go home? Okay.
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  It's going to be fun. It's going to be howl ahead fun.
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  Yes.
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  This spirit, as far as we know, is the youngest that we know a bourbon can be.
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  Oh, yeah. Do you know how old that is?
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  I'm going to take a wild guess and say two years, because most of the ones
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  I drink are four years and over.
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  Most of the ones I drink.
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  Yeah, I think you're right.
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  Most of the ones that we've shared are usually older than four years.
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  Yeah, I'm getting a lot of slide. You're right.
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  Do I get another start? Two years.
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  You get another banana lolly. Cheers.
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  Here's to more...
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  Are we going to do a lot of cheers in this episode?
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  I know. Well, it's all about the fun.
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  Here is to drinkable banana lollies, the alcohol.
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  Yes.
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  In what is probably like, people probably don't know this.
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  If you love banana lollies, if you have loved them as a child and you don't
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  mind a bourbon, you freaking love this.
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  If you love bourbon, I'm This is not really…
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  What is this? Probably going to offend you.
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  It's awful in that way, but it's a lovely-It's easy to drink.
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  It's a funny dream. It tastes like Banana Lollies.
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  The thing I like about it the best? What?
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  It's bourbon.
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  You have fun.
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  No, it's not bourbon.
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  No, it's in the spirit of bourbon.
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  It's made in Kentucky.
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  Burbon glance at it at some point. Yes.
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  But the whole philosophy behind drinking bourbon and having fun.
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  Have it how you like it. Exactly.
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